Show everybody a little crazy at least scientists make interesting deductions deguchi ons the line between sanity and insanity sanit becomes vaguer and vaguer the more psychologists try to draw it asserts a writer in the chicago dally daily news noy now come dr james jaines vaughn and othilda krug of the university of cincinnati who tell of giving the rorschach ink blot test to 43 apsy chotlas with paranoid tendencies and to 52 students at their school and they conclude it is interesting inheres ting to observe that here and there normal people present original form responses which are probably as indicative of pathology as the original form responses of the psychotics one can hardly escape the conclusion that insanity is a difference in degree and not in kind the degree kree seems important their observations were reported recently to the american association for the advancement of science the ink blot test consists of dropping some ln ink konto onto a paper folding it so sd that the ink smears into an irregular outline and then letting the patient interpret the outline it has lie been demonstrated to the tion lion of psychologists that the interpretation pre tation shows characteristics that may be associated with various types of insanity apparently normal people and psychotics resemble one another in many respects the two investigators i ibm summed med up they present similarities in degree and kind of adjustment adjust ment intelligence analytical ability and originality stereotypy ideas of persecution and grandeur and introversion and extraversion the report reports the psychotics the psychologists continued in leading to their conclusion present evidence of greater dissociation and less rapport with environment but it Is surprising to find so many apparently normal people presenting similar tendencies I 1 |